Soon it will be time for me to return to teaching high school English and my summer will be over. I really cannot complain about my summer, because it has been wonderful. There have been many highlights. Earlier this week, my son Mark and I floated the James, as he too is about to return to teaching school.
In June, guide Britt Stoudenmire of the New River Outdoor Company and I fished the New River at night for a magazine article and had a stupendous fishing trip - certainly my favorite one of the summer and also the one where I learned the most. I also made trips to the Greenbrier River and Second Creek in West Virginia for stories.
Elaine and I picked 10 gallons of wild wineberries and blackberries and she made jam from both (see below) as well as we froze a number of quart bags for wintertime pies and cobblers.
Our heritage Rhode Island Red chicks that we ordered are now much larger, and we hope to have roosters crowing and hens laying sometime in September. I worked on the food plot behind the house and hope to have the plot reseeded by the end of August.
All in all, life is good.
.JPG)
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